Thursday 7 June 2012

Don't trust EA farther than you can throw them

Have a bit of a bank cockup over a very small purchase? Lose access to all your past games that you paid for.

Really, it seems like the only way to deal safely with some of these systems is to open a new account every time you buy a game, so that you minimise the potential damage...

Or, you know, you could do your homework and buy games from nice indies who don't use DRM instead of jumping on the biggest AAA title? But who am I kidding?

2 comments:

Kazriko said...

I'm thinking about avoiding EA games in the future. It's not like I have a terribly large number of them to begin with. Mass Effect 2/Dragon Age 1/2 for PS3 and Spore are the only four I can think of, and I really only enjoyed Spore out of those 4.

More importantly, it's probably a good idea to avoid platforms that have call-home DRM, such as Origin and Steam...

Kazriko said...

I take that back... Kingdoms of Amalur was a great game.